GENERAL MERCHANDISE
NEW b r ic k
WHERE YOU DO BETTER.
D R Y GOODS
SH O ES
The Niftiest Styles, For Summer Wear, For Ladies and Gentle
men.
COTTAGE GROVE LEADER
vott have got to have money in
order to get the money out of the
ground.
PU BLISH Kl> KYKKY KHIDAY BY
A good mine, well developed, is
TH K LRAOKK PU BLISH IN G CO (la r .)
the safest and best paying propo
Editors sition in the world and sells itself,
CONNK.R A D u B r i I I I K.
but a prosjiect, no matter how
Entered at the Cottage (¡rove postoIBce as sec- good it looks, or how honestly it
oml-class matter.
may be managed, will sometime
: prove a blank, so that the man
j who takes the chances and fur-
H U B s c K ir r io N k a t k s
One Year
.
.
.
- fl.so ; wishes the funds for this kind of
Six Months
*3®
; work ought to have a much larger
Three Months
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M
If paid In ail vane« but II not so paid a
uniform rate of *¿.00 per year will be charged. share of the projierty than he gen-
Advertising rates made known on application ; erally gets, otherwise he can not
1 afford to keep on taking these
FR ID A Y . AUGUST 21, 1908
i chances.
These suggestions are meant in
the kindest spirit and are given
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. only
liecause our prospects present
such wonderful—such almost un
REIU'BMCANS.
limited possibilities that we dislike
F. J. Miller....................................... Albany to see their development retarded
K . K. B u tle r .................................... B a k v r C ity
I by any cause.
J . A. I ,e e .................................................... P o rtla n d
A . 2 . M a r s te r s ................................................ R o s e b u rg
Frank Benson, secretary of state
is in San Francisco, critically ill
Sam W h i t e ..................................................... B a k e r C ! ity
l i . J . S. M c A llis te r ..............................1‘o r tla m l and must undergo an operation for
B e rn a rd D a ly ........................................... I’o rtla n d j cancer of the stomach with little
O . 1*. C o slio w ........................
K o se b u rg
FALSEHOOD WILL NOT SELL MINES
hope for his recovery. In case of
Chamberlain’s election as U. S.
senator it would fall to the lot of
Benson to serve as acting governor
until next election. Should death
claim Benson before the legislature
meets, Chamberlain could appoint
democratic secretary of state, who
would also lie acting governor if
Chamberlain becomes senator.—
Register. I.ater reports announce
that Benson is rapidly recovering
his lost health.
After reproving the wild exag
geration indulged ill by many min
ing promoters the American Min
iug Review says:
The facts are good enough, but
these fabulous assays, wired all
over the world, though they may
make the man who wants to put in
ten dollars and pull out a thou
sand, plunge in with his ten, these
The city council should not lie
things, we repeat, make the man
of millions, the man with experi blamed for the enforcement of the
water rules and regulations. The
ence, hesitate and draw back.
A prospector finds a high-grade dry season is at hand and unless
mine with a large body of milling the water supply is protected a fire
ore going four or five times the might break out at a time when
average of the Iiomestake and a the reservoirs were empty and the
couple of feet perhaps going city would be at the mercy of the
around $l(Ml, and a streak of very flames. Any citizen found guilty
rich rock. He gets a hunk of this of willfully wasting the city water
latter and assays one of the best should be required to pay the
corners of that and runs to the penalty prescribed by the or
telegraph office to announce a dinance. ______________
strike of *100,000 ore.
“ Maltoua'’ is what the Astoria
This may make a sensation
among the gamblers of little brewery calls it: Roseburg brewery
means, but the man of money calls it "near beer,” and now,
merely smiles. A plain, concise more truthful than the others, the
statement, that a ledge has been Salem brewery comes out with a
ojiened up ten or twelve feet wide summer drink, which it labels
of $20 ore, with two feet going “ Real" lieer.
better than $100, would command
The Leader believes that if a
instant attention and that from the
men who have the funds to do twenty-five years franchise was re
quired to insure the building of an
things.
If you want to sell, know your electric road to or in this city, it
would lie readily granted by the
own mine—get at the facts, and
same people who voted down the
give them so that if a practical
man examines your property he light franchise Wednesday.
will find it at least as good as re
Mary Callahan, a Texas widow,
presented.
If you want to incorporate a owns i>0,000 sheep. When we
reasonable prospect and develop it consider the fact that Mary had a
with other people’s money, there is little lamb, only, to begin with, it
no harm in that, provided you must lie acknowledged that she
give them a fair “ run for their has done remarkablv well.
money.” Sell your treasury stock
An Albany widow had inscribed
and put the money into intelligent
development work, not into autos, on the tombstone of the late la
champagne and other similar chan mented— “ Rest in jieace—till we
nels. Do good, intelligent work, meet ag ain ." There is probably a
and if you fail there will be no wish entertained in the spirit
kick coining from your backers. world that she may live long.
There are plenty of people willing
Threshing is practically over in
to risk their money on a mining
this vicinity and while the grain
propect, if they can get a ‘‘square crop was not a heavy yield it is of
deal,” but in too many cases, in good quality—and the price is out
recent years, a piece of ground
of sight. It’s the farmer’s inning
has been incorporated, and named
again this year.
as an annex or extension, or side
wheeler, or something, of some
‘‘W illie’’ is a name that is likely
"realy,truly" mine, when it might to be in style for a good many
be out of range of a twelve-inch years to come— for there is Taft,
gun, or if within gunshot, it might Bryan and the editor of the liu-
lie upon some parallel formation, gene Register to name the babies
without a ghost of a show of for this vear.
making a mine. Then in addition
to all that, the money received
The citv administration is pros
from stock sale has lieeu in many ecuting citizens for the too lilieral
cases spent on a trip to New York, use of city water. The former ad
San Francisco or l.os Angeles, and ministration was kept busy trying
having a "gay old time” general to force the citizens to form the
ly. ‘‘Brethren, these things ought water habit.
not so to lie,” and the sooner a
new leaf is turned the sooner the
Isaac Skeeters, the first white
funds will come in from the Hast man to view Crater lake, died at
to extract the wealth from the Medford, aged S2, years this week.
ground. A mine is a good deal
like a pool of water you want to
It will be a relief to the news
take over a raise. You have a paper readers when all this hot air
syphon to draw the water over, notification business is ended.
but you must get that syphon full
of water before it will work. After
Now that Cottage (¡rove is to
that it is easv. So it is with a have a natatorium. of course Ku-
mine. No matter how good it is gene wants one.
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S E C U R IT Y
This is the Fund that protects our depositors
from loss, coupled with years of successful
business experience. This Bank has a
Capital of
$ 2 5 .0 0 0 .0 0
Surplus Fund of
5 ,0 0 0 .0 0
Undivided Profit of
-
1 0 ,0 0 0 .0 0
Stockholders Liability of
2 5 .0 0 0 .0 0
A Total of
$ 6 5 ,0 0 0 .0 0
This means that we must los * 6 5 .0 0 0 00 bef< •re our
depositors could lose one cent. This protection is for
YOU
When vou think BANK think of >he
F IR S T N H T I0 N H L B H N K
OF COTTAGE OROVE. OREGON
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Everything Seasonable for that Outing or for home wear in this
swell department.
New fresh stock. Everything to meet the requirements of the
housewife. Phone your wants.
COMPTON & WALLACE
LOW PRICES
DEMOCRATIC.
n ew goods
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Now produce the mau who said TEACHERS AWARDED
he “ would furnish the city with
COVETED CERTIFICATES
street lights free if the voters would j
grant him a twenty-five years
franchise.” We anxiously await Out of Nearly One Hundred Applicants
his coiniug.
Sixty-Seven Were Successful.
Professional
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FAIR TREATMENT
C a rd s.
K. YOUNG
A T T O R N S Y AT L A W
Office: Young Building, Main Street,
Went Side.
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Eiactly fiat Toa Vast
IN T H E U N E O E
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State Papers Sent to Salem.
It is stated the people of Cottage
(¡rove voted exactly to the liking
Family Groceries, New Dry Goods
County Superintendent Dillard
of the S. P. railroad company
and
his
assistant
examiners,
Prof
Wednesday. “ Keep out the elec
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Fine Laces and Embroideries
essor Alderman and Attoreny W.
tric roads,” is their slogan.
P H Y S IC IA N m l AURGKON
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G. Martin, finished grading the
Office In McKarlaud Building
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Ladies' and Gents Shoes
Kansas will have none of the papers of the semiannual teachers’ T 11
Over Cochrans Furniture More
jH
o m ce Phone, 341 Jtesldenco Phone, 581 gf
sheath gown. The absence of examination late Saturday night,
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socks is the only bare proposition and a list of the successful appli
cants
is
printed
below.
The
class
it will stand for.
included nearly 100 applicants, 20
J . s- mkdlky ,
It is said that when a fire breaks of whom were seekiug state papers
# A T T O R N E Y AT LA W
out in Drain, every member of the and out of which (»7 were success $
volunteer hose company is notified ful in pulling down county papers. » S p ecial A ttention Given to M inin« and
Everything new and uo-to-date. Best brands and grades ot
Law.
Those who sought state certificates 9 O ffice . S C u orporation
Fresh Groceries. Country Produce bought and sold. Call and
by postal card.
ite 3 . B a n k B u ild in g .
and diplomas finished writing Sat
see what a dollar will buy at W. C. JO H N SO N ’S.
Some investors know there is a urday and their manuscripts were
lot of money in mines, because forwarded at once to Salem to lie
graded.* The list of successful
they have put it there.
J C. JOHNSON,
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county applicants follows:
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A T T O R N E Y AT LA W
F I R S T OR A D R
If it can’t have a normal school.
K states A dm inistered, M inin« P atents
W E ARE L O C A T E D FOR T H E P R E SE N T
Maud Hayes, Junction; A. J . % Procured. M in in « am i C orporation Law
Drain will try to have a high
i specialty,
office over ( ’•riffiti, Vcatch
Sheridan, Fugene: E. W. Jordan,
IN TH E
school.
H ardw are.
Kltuira; Fraud Condon, Minerva: f ■ Office Phone, M ain 113. R esidence, 85.
Mr. Ilearst is content to be the Fannie Colvin, Fugene; Laura
father of his party.
Bones, Taft; Minnie Evans, Fu
gene; Fva Hunter. Fugene: Clara
C o r n e r Second and Main Streets
Surcamp, Walton; May Holmes,
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LEAGUE MEMBERS
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Walterville: Clare Stacy, Water- f
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D E N T IS T
and would be pleased to show our customers and
Richard Watson Smith, Eu 6
VISIT TO THE GROVE ville:
Stew art Porter Huildiu«
gene: George Thompson, Fugene:
friends our
Phone 1451
H ours S.30 to I J. 1 to
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Mrs. Zelma Harper,
Fugene;
Talk Good Roads and General Devel Dorilla Somers, Eugene; Eva M.
Casebeer, Waterville; Annie Hum
opment of the State, at
H . C. M A D S E N ,
phrey, Fall Creek; Roxie Pringle,
Club Rooms.
Cottage (¡rove: Mae Kinsey, Eu
W atchmaker .
Now A rriv ing Dally
gene; Myrtle Purvance, Cottage
Cottage (¡rove was favored with Grove; Etta Bowermau, Spring- Repairing a t reasonable cnarges.
All work guaranteed first-olara.
a visit from Col. Ii. Ilofer, presi field.
Gingham and Percales, entirely new patterns
Watches, ('locks and Jew elry a t low est Price
dent Willamette Valley Develop
Bordered Prints, something new at 7c per yard
S E C O N D C .R A D E
COTTAGE
GROVE.
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ment League and Kditor Salem
Complete line of Val Laces and Insertions, e x
Maud Dick, of Mabel; Kathe
journal; Judge J . II. Scott, presi rine Levage, Florence; Mable
tra fine.
New Dress Goods, latest weaves.
dent Oregon (¡ood Roads Associa Johnson, Leaburg; R. S. Goff, General B lacksm ¡th in g
Kitnona Cloth, all colors, and other articles of
tion, Railroad Commissioner West Deerhorn: Freída Rhodes, Fugene;
interest to the buyers
Horseshoeing a specialty.
Wagon and carriage re-
and State engineer J . II. Lewis Iua Zumwalt, Elmira; Mildred
ing. All work guaranteed
and others Thursday, who are eu- Pringle, Cottage (¡rove: Belle
riave your horses teeth ex-
ammed and repaired. Shoe
route to Coos Bay to attend the Warner, Hazeldell: Grace Wil
at rear o f Hemeuway A
Burkholder’s Store :: ::
Development Congress at Marsh helm, Fugene; Etta Owen, lvisou:
field Monday and Tuesday.
B
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Lila Owen, Crow: Irene Maltman,
The visitors were met at the de- Irving; Nellie McCord, Creswell;
I>ot bv a Commercial Club commit Lrma Smith, Springfield: Laura
F R U IT T R E E S
tee in the afternoon and escorted Volgamore,
Marcóla; A d e 11 a
to the club rooms, where after an White, Cottage (¡rove; Mida Wing, G ro w n Right H e re in Cottage
informal reception, II. O. Thomp Irving: lilla Evans, Harrisburg:
G rove.
son presided and introduced the Ira L. Rowe, Corvallis: Ola Liles,
F A R M M A C H IN E R Y
S A W M IL L S U P P L I E S
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will
be
prepared
to supply
speakers. Col. Ilofer was the first Crow; William Shelby, Junction;
planters with nil kinds of fruit,
speaker. 1 Ie reviewed the recent Martha Callison, Fall Creek.
trees and other nursery stocks
S T E A M AND G A S O L I N E EN G IN ES,
(¡ood Roads meeting held in I’ort
the coming full My prices will
P AC KIN G , H O S E AND B E L T I ' . G
T H IR D G R A D E
lie
right
and
my
trees
clean
and
land, when $f>,000 was subscribed
Helen VanDuyn, Eugene: Al-
healthy,
and
hy
patronizing
a
to be used in conducting good frieda Lingreen, Florence; (¡race
home Industry yon will help to
roads meetings this fall in order to Goodman, Earl: Janie Fish, Ma-
build up a nursery that has long
create sentiment favorable to good pletou; Clara Nipholle, Eugene;
tieen needed here, and keep the
money a t home.
roads legislation this winter.
Edna Atkinson, Walton; Elsa
With :vi years experience with
lie said Judge Webster and Singletary, Eugene; Nina Thur fruit
trees and lierries in t his ell-
Judge Scott were selected as a man, Berkeley: Bertha Mitchell,
mate, Ira n save the intending
planter much time and trouble In
committee to cal! these meetings (¡leñada: Hazel Ilazeltou, Cottage
selecting the best varieties, ns
and conduct the good roads cam Grove; Maliel Hayes, Junction;
well as money on first eost ot
paign this fall. Col. Ilofer advo Carrie Barnham, Irving; Pearl
Wholesale and Retail
trees.
cated a state highway from Port Powrie, Drain; Alice McCornack,
Deride early what you want to
land to Ashland, which he stated, Marcóla: Katie llawlev. Mineral;
plant, anil write or phone to me
for price and other Information.
would encourage the building of Raymond Mitchell, Pleasant Hill;
hundreds of good lateral roads. Beatrice Aldous, Walton; Bessie
S. B . M O R .SS,
He also advocated free locks at Bavly, Eugene: (¡race Franham, P h o n e
C o t t a g e G rove,
Oregon City, deep sea harbor at Walterville; Sadie Odell, Eugene:
471
Oregon.
Coos Bay and breaking up of great Hanna Oleson, Eugene; Rollin
land holdings and grants.
Dickerson, Drain.
Judge Scott was the next sjieaker
B R A S S G O O D S AND T IN W A R E
PR IM A R Y ’
and announced that he with others
S T O V E S AND R A N G E S
Minnie Kahler, Springfield.
And n il Kinds of
would come to Cottage (¡rove late
this fall and conduct a big good
M I T C H E L L WAGONS
Rev Armstrong Coming Home.
WINDMILLS, P U M P S
roads convention, which he hoped
would lie attended lioth by farmers Lakeview, Oregon, Aug. 17, OS.
and business men in order to crys-
The Leader:— Please stop send
talize sentiment before the legisla ing your esteemed paper to me at Leave orders at Cunningham's Con-
fectionery Phone 73 or phone
ture convenes, so as to unite on a this address. 1 will soon lie home
residence 40 6
practical good roads bill providing and will tell you what to do then.
for state aid. He said the county My wife has liecn sick since March
courts have had too great a burden 1. I have lieeu past preaching
to liear in this particular and since July 1. The doctor says 1
should have state aid. lie advo can not preach for a year. I am
cates the state appropriating an coming home to rest and recover
equal amount with each county for my voice if I can. At least I will
All Kinds of
road work annually and said that lie with you all winter if not hind
the first undertaking should lie a ered beyond my control. We in
state road from Portland to Ash tend to drive through and have an
taawsg— am niaow w iw w i'^asrtt
land.
outing indeed. Will tell you all
C O TTA G E G R O V E
State Kngineer Lewis discussed aliout it when I see you.
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water rights, irrigation and the
A. J . A r m s t r o n g .
need of a new code regulating
these matters. He said that even
Dancing and Music School.
All the latest treatment*.
Willamette valley land was en
hanced fioiu 50 to BV) per cent in
"PI
The opening of Prof. Jas. Ii.
value by irrigation a few months Hamlin’s dancing and music
PLAIN u ii MEDIO ATM) BATHS
annually.
school at the armory Thursday
C H A S . M A T T H E W S . Proprietor.
Railroad Commissioner West evening was well attended, there
discussed railroad grants saying living I S memliers of his Drain
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that the grants of Oregon railroads class present at the opening here.
in area, were equal to several New Prof. Hamlin represents the Na Ç For further particulars address
Fnglaud states combined, the tional Association and Normal
I»r. H. C. 8C H LKK F.
largest of which lielongs to llarri- schools of music and dancing and
man. He said the sooner these was successful in organizing a
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big grants can be broken up and I class of S5 here to receive the
made subject to settlement the j course of .to lessons. His opening
sooner Oregon’s development and was preceded with an interesting
The Standard High Grade Fence of the
expansion will lie brought about. lecture on music and dancing.
World.
There is over 4 0 0 miles of this
Cot. Ilofer thanked the Commer-1
famous wire fence in Douglasconntv, Oregon.
cial club and citizens for their
This is High Carbon Spring Wire whichwifi
presence and cordial reception e x
keep its shajie when properly stretched. Will
tended to the League delegates,
and in return H. O. Thompson e x
carry a full stock of wire a t all times.
All kimls of machine ami repair
tended the thanks of the Commer
work ilone promptly anil at reason
cial club to the visitors for the in
Inquire of
able prices.
terest manifested in Cottage (¡rove
DAVID ORKifiS,
or STRARNS & CHENOWITH. A.ents
by their visit here.
Cottage Grove, Ore.
Oakland, Ore.
Fpon motion of F . B. Phillips
J hint Street,
the Commercial club passed a reso
lution of thanks to the visitors for
COTTAGE G RO VR, OREGON
their visit to this city and their in
structive discussions.
Edison, Columbia
A committee was ap|>ointed to
Victor
The next poultry show will be
arrange for a big (¡ood Roads con
more successful if you will spnnklc
vention to be held here this fall.
GRAPH0PH0NES
you hen roost with Avenarius Car
Records
bolineum, for sale at Veatch & ,
New post cards and local views
at the Bazaar.
I.awsous,
itf
Notions, Novelties
-e
J O H N S O N ’S
t
STORE
New Stewart Building
N ew
Fall S tock
Wynne Hardware Company
Hardware and Machinery
D R A Y IN Q
H A U L IN G
Hauling Done Promptly at
Reasonable Charge
w. a . R ogate
COTTAGE GROVE
FLOUR
MILLS
Mill Feed
G ra in
an d Hay
THE PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE.
M I L L E R ’S
Machine Shop
OLD LEADER BUILDING